Sure, I'm disappointed that its not battery powered (though, we don't *know* that yet for sure)... but even still, I'd find it quite useful to have it even in AC-powered situations.
Such as laying in bed with the SO, playing Tekken or Vagrant Story. No need to bring the TV into the bedroom and set up all that junk - just put it between us on the covers and play away the Sunday.
Plus, you should also consider that this version of the Playstation caters to a very strong Japanese space-is-everything ethic. I imagine there will be cube-dwellers buying this thing just to give themselves another 6 inches of elbow room...
Why would quicksilver not have any relevance 300 years ago? Many occultists, high priests and philosophers of that period believed that mercury (quicksilver) had special 'mystical' properties. I wouldn't find it to hard to comprehend that it's being used in interesting ways in the next book for encryption purposes - just maybe not electrically...
Anyone whose read Cryptonomicon knows that 'quicksilver' (otherwise known as mercury) played a very interesting role in the plot.
I find it curious that he's using this as the title for his next book, which is apparently going to be about Enoch Root and his Sect, pre-modern age. Still on the subject of cryptography, though...
(Note, I haven't read the interview with Neal S. yet - just curious if anyone sees the significance in the title)...
That's all well and good, and really you bring up some of the points that I, as a C programmer of 15 years, are quite aware of.
But you're still thinking inside your box as a technologist using technology. Think instead, for a moment, what Unix and C as *tools* have done for society in general.
Sure, they may not be the nicest tools to use, but they have sure built some great bridges.
The Web, for one.
This forum, for another (yes, Perl != C, but C was used to build Perl).
I generally evaluate a technology on the basis of what are its current effects on the environment, and what are its continued effects. In my view, for all their ugliness, Unix and C have made a *huge* difference to society as a whole, and on those grounds you can't complain.
Anyone else remember MSX? That was a great idea too, back in the early 80's, and could've been pulled off as a concept... since I was just a teenager back then, I didn't really have any comprehension of why exactly MSX and MSX2 failed as a market... anyone got any tips?
There's a fair bit of Slashdot-plagiarism going on, though I think adding a separate copyright to each post is a bit of an overcorrection... there is, after all, a copyright notice at the end of each page.
However, Slashdot has never been a bastion of copyright protection issues, so I guess, on the other hand, putting individual copyright notices in your.sig to differentiate yourself from the Slashmob on copyright issues is probably a wise thing...
I remember the days of the ol' Z80, 6502, and 8080 assembler DIY computer kits. My first computer was 6502-based and required assembly.
Heck, I remember when USENET was introduced, and how cool that was! Whoa, you mean we can post messages and it'll get automatically distributed to News servers around the world? FREAKY!
How lame is it that he refuses to teach anyone how to make obsidian blades in order to maintain "quality of the industry"?
Sounds like a total wanker to me. He should share that tech, lest he accidentally fall on one of his blades (which I'm sure are undoubtedly extremely cool), and the tech of 10,000 years is lost again.
He's not an archeologist, I think. He's an egomaniac who just happens to make good blades.
I remember staying up real late to watch it fall out of the sky as a kid, about 9 yrs old. It was fascinating to me - Perth (the nearest largish city in the area where it crashed) wasn't really sure if it was going to hit or not, and there was a general superstition in the neighbourhood about the whole thing...
It ended up crashing near Esperance, and yes - large bits of it made it to the ground, including an Oxygen tank or two. There are people in Esperance who swear that the piles of junk on the shelf contain bits of Skylab, even to this day.
Here in Los Angeles (where I now live), there's a bit of Skylab up in the Griffith Observatory (near the Hollywood sign), as well as a pretty nifty little display on the whole thing. Go check it out some time if you're in the area, it's a free geek-out.
Reminds me of the sort of thing all my Microsoft-lovin' NT bigot friends used to say back in '93 when I told 'em about this litlle ol' thing called Linux.
"We don't need no steenkin' Unix."
Techno is the music of the future, man. Get used to it.
;)
Go see "Better Living Through Circuitry"...
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... and you'll see a better picture of the way technology-focused (i.e. technology types made it) music propagates.
"Tech" music is scarey to big media. And it's people like programmers and admins, and their general ability to confront scarey technology, wrestle it to the ground, and wack it over the head with a big stick, which gives most modern monopolistic companies something to really be scared of.
The average Joe Musician, recording his own material in a digital studio he built himself using inexpensive components, is the same sort of persona (generally) as the average OS Student Finnish programmer wacking out 386 code in the wee hours of the morning, circa 1991... able to work things out for themselves, and use the machines they've built for themselves, to write art (software) for themselves and share it freely.
There'll be a similar boost in this culture (DIY Musicians) as there was with the opensource programmer culture during the mid-90's - many of us are already seeing this occurring now, with sites like MP3, SampleLibrary.Net (which I run), etc.
So I think you're pretty close to being spot on with your asessment that we need to start writing our own music. Just like we needed to start writing our own OS, just a few short years ago...
And look for this "roll your own" cultural phenomenon to make its presence felt in other industries too...
Of course, I'm kinda sceptical of a few static screenshots, just like I was sceptical of the PS2 shots too, when they were released.
The first few butterfly pictures are pretty nice - I'd like to see the frame rate on that demo. If its smooth, that's quite impressive - though there are plenty of programming tricks that can be employed to boost performance on the butterflies that aren't immediately obvious - yet would give the impression of serious hardware power.
I'm reminded of early Renderware (remember them?) demo's, though. There's a clankiness to the edges of some of the objects in these screenshots that harkens back to the Renderware way of doing polygon transforms... can't place my finger on it, but it just 'feels' that way. Perhaps some other graphics guru's can explain what they see in those pics from a rendering perspective?
Overall, pretty impressive. I'll probably be adding an XBox to my setup, right alongside my Dreamcast and (this September) a PS2. The $1000 I'd spend on building a nice PC game system will instead go towards a 3-tier total entertainment, cover-all-bases-take-no-prisoners console 'mini-arcade' for my living room...
(I bet they hand out those ping pong balls with "X" on them at trade shows.)
The Control-A1 port on Sony consumer digital audio products (as well as their laptops), give computers direct control over Sony MiniDisc systems from Sony-provide software, including the ability to drag and drop audio files to and from MiniDiscs, using the Control-A1 port.
Very common in Japan, but you gotta look underneath the covers to find this feature in Sony products here in the US.
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If so, then that's a seriously nice combo...
Sure, I'm disappointed that its not battery powered (though, we don't *know* that yet for sure)... but even still, I'd find it quite useful to have it even in AC-powered situations.
...
Such as laying in bed with the SO, playing Tekken or Vagrant Story. No need to bring the TV into the bedroom and set up all that junk - just put it between us on the covers and play away the Sunday.
Plus, you should also consider that this version of the Playstation caters to a very strong Japanese space-is-everything ethic. I imagine there will be cube-dwellers buying this thing just to give themselves another 6 inches of elbow room
Why would quicksilver not have any relevance 300 years ago? Many occultists, high priests and philosophers of that period believed that mercury (quicksilver) had special 'mystical' properties. I wouldn't find it to hard to comprehend that it's being used in interesting ways in the next book for encryption purposes - just maybe not electrically...
Anyone whose read Cryptonomicon knows that 'quicksilver' (otherwise known as mercury) played a very interesting role in the plot.
I find it curious that he's using this as the title for his next book, which is apparently going to be about Enoch Root and his Sect, pre-modern age. Still on the subject of cryptography, though...
(Note, I haven't read the interview with Neal S. yet - just curious if anyone sees the significance in the title)...
Hah hah!
(Damn I wish I could post an audio snippet of that!)
That's all well and good, and really you bring up some of the points that I, as a C programmer of 15 years, are quite aware of.
But you're still thinking inside your box as a technologist using technology. Think instead, for a moment, what Unix and C as *tools* have done for society in general.
Sure, they may not be the nicest tools to use, but they have sure built some great bridges.
The Web, for one.
This forum, for another (yes, Perl != C, but C was used to build Perl).
I generally evaluate a technology on the basis of what are its current effects on the environment, and what are its continued effects. In my view, for all their ugliness, Unix and C have made a *huge* difference to society as a whole, and on those grounds you can't complain.
Build better tools, hopefully you'll build better bridges...
It GPF's windows machines. C'mon, you gotta respect a URL that GPF's windows machines indefatigably... :)
Your sig is fucking hilarious, dude. I'm sending that to all the WinZealots I can find...
Nice one!
:)
At that point, they become invincible.
So you think Unix and C should never have been born. Fair enough, everyone is entitled to your opinion, but I don't agree with yours.
On what basis are you assuming that Unix and C have been *detrimental* as a whole?
And what is your suggested alternative?
Anyone else remember MSX? That was a great idea too, back in the early 80's, and could've been pulled off as a concept... since I was just a teenager back then, I didn't really have any comprehension of why exactly MSX and MSX2 failed as a market... anyone got any tips?
There's a fair bit of Slashdot-plagiarism going on, though I think adding a separate copyright to each post is a bit of an overcorrection... there is, after all, a copyright notice at the end of each page.
.sig to differentiate yourself from the Slashmob on copyright issues is probably a wise thing...
However, Slashdot has never been a bastion of copyright protection issues, so I guess, on the other hand, putting individual copyright notices in your
I remember the days of the ol' Z80, 6502, and 8080 assembler DIY computer kits. My first computer was 6502-based and required assembly.
Heck, I remember when USENET was introduced, and how cool that was! Whoa, you mean we can post messages and it'll get automatically distributed to News servers around the world? FREAKY!
Unix will never die.
How lame is it that he refuses to teach anyone how to make obsidian blades in order to maintain "quality of the industry"?
Sounds like a total wanker to me. He should share that tech, lest he accidentally fall on one of his blades (which I'm sure are undoubtedly extremely cool), and the tech of 10,000 years is lost again.
He's not an archeologist, I think. He's an egomaniac who just happens to make good blades.
I remember staying up real late to watch it fall out of the sky as a kid, about 9 yrs old. It was fascinating to me - Perth (the nearest largish city in the area where it crashed) wasn't really sure if it was going to hit or not, and there was a general superstition in the neighbourhood about the whole thing ...
It ended up crashing near Esperance, and yes - large bits of it made it to the ground, including an Oxygen tank or two. There are people in Esperance who swear that the piles of junk on the shelf contain bits of Skylab, even to this day.
Here in Los Angeles (where I now live), there's a bit of Skylab up in the Griffith Observatory (near the Hollywood sign), as well as a pretty nifty little display on the whole thing. Go check it out some time if you're in the area, it's a free geek-out.
Hoot!
"We don't need no steenkin' techno."
Reminds me of the sort of thing all my Microsoft-lovin' NT bigot friends used to say back in '93 when I told 'em about this litlle ol' thing called Linux.
"We don't need no steenkin' Unix."
Techno is the music of the future, man. Get used to it.
;)
... and you'll see a better picture of the way technology-focused (i.e. technology types made it) music propagates.
"Tech" music is scarey to big media. And it's people like programmers and admins, and their general ability to confront scarey technology, wrestle it to the ground, and wack it over the head with a big stick, which gives most modern monopolistic companies something to really be scared of.
The average Joe Musician, recording his own material in a digital studio he built himself using inexpensive components, is the same sort of persona (generally) as the average OS Student Finnish programmer wacking out 386 code in the wee hours of the morning, circa 1991... able to work things out for themselves, and use the machines they've built for themselves, to write art (software) for themselves and share it freely.
There'll be a similar boost in this culture (DIY Musicians) as there was with the opensource programmer culture during the mid-90's - many of us are already seeing this occurring now, with sites like MP3, SampleLibrary.Net (which I run), etc.
So I think you're pretty close to being spot on with your asessment that we need to start writing our own music. Just like we needed to start writing our own OS, just a few short years ago...
And look for this "roll your own" cultural phenomenon to make its presence felt in other industries too...
If it makes 'em breathable, or livable, then you *know* we're going to Mars sooner than we thought.
Of course, I'm kinda sceptical of a few static screenshots, just like I was sceptical of the PS2 shots too, when they were released.
The first few butterfly pictures are pretty nice - I'd like to see the frame rate on that demo. If its smooth, that's quite impressive - though there are plenty of programming tricks that can be employed to boost performance on the butterflies that aren't immediately obvious - yet would give the impression of serious hardware power.
I'm reminded of early Renderware (remember them?) demo's, though. There's a clankiness to the edges of some of the objects in these screenshots that harkens back to the Renderware way of doing polygon transforms... can't place my finger on it, but it just 'feels' that way. Perhaps some other graphics guru's can explain what they see in those pics from a rendering perspective?
Overall, pretty impressive. I'll probably be adding an XBox to my setup, right alongside my Dreamcast and (this September) a PS2. The $1000 I'd spend on building a nice PC game system will instead go towards a 3-tier total entertainment, cover-all-bases-take-no-prisoners console 'mini-arcade' for my living room...
(I bet they hand out those ping pong balls with "X" on them at trade shows.)
The Control-A1 port on Sony consumer digital audio products (as well as their laptops), give computers direct control over Sony MiniDisc systems from Sony-provide software, including the ability to drag and drop audio files to and from MiniDiscs, using the Control-A1 port.
Very common in Japan, but you gotta look underneath the covers to find this feature in Sony products here in the US.
Hey guys, can I play too?
Oh, I guess not.
Because this story was on kuro5hin.org before it came to Slashdot.
Thus, 'slashdotted' is not the appropriate term. 'kuro5hined' is the appopriate term.
... before you go spewing off rhetoric about what you think you know.
MS are banning *all* software sales on EBay, regardless of whether it's a prepackaged, fully licensed, valid version, or not.
Idiot.
Now *THIS* is news:
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=20
Dunno why it hasn't made its way to Slashdot yet, other than lameness.